Re: Bluetooth PAN daemon

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Iain Hibbert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Finally I wrote a Bluetooth PAN daemon for NetBSD, it opens a tap(4)
> interface and can handle all roles:
>
>  NAP     Network Access Point is like an ethernet bridge
>
>  GN      Group ad-hoc Network is a NAP with no external network
>
>  PANU    Personal Area Networking User in both host (like GN but
>          a single connection) and client (the device that connects
>          to all the others) mode.
>
> source at:
>
>    http://www.netbsd.org/~plunky/btpand-20080812.tar.gz
>
> any comments, suggestions or test results welcome (I'm fiddling with
> details at the moment but the core is finished)
>
> It should work on any NetBSD4+ system, the only thing is that the
> /usr/sbin/sdpd and <sdp.h> function should be up to date in order to
> register GN or PANU services (I added some padding recently so that
> nap/gn/panu structure are the same size)
>
> I only tested PANU (netbsd) -> NAP (windows mobile 6) so far, it performs
> better than PPP (solid 6Kb/s against 2-5Kb/s using ppp to DUN service. I
> blame the phone for that though :)
>
> Also, is this something we want in NetBSD base system (it is written for
> NetBSD), or should I go the pkgsrc route (it could be adapted without too
> much trouble for other BSD systems)?

        I'd love to see this in the base system. Having a quick
        play with NetBSD 4.0 and it looks like btpand.h needs to
        include sys/types.h before net/if.h to get the definition
        of u_long and server.c needs sys/time.h before event.h for
        timeval.

        Would it make sense to ask for an sdp.h & usr.sbin/sdpd
        pullup into netbsd-4 ?

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